After the description of the video I specify on how to use a separate Resource server that “authenticates” against the Authorization server, also specify about the token store usage and an Example on how to do a @Query using the Authenticated user has a filter.

He also added a constructor to the AccountEntity I placed it above in the Entity

Now he teaches Spring Security about our database, with an implementation of UserDetailsService, this Interface is a method of how Spring Security will “transform” our internal Account into a User understandable Username Password and all other details related to Spring Security.

loadByUsername also expects a Exception of type UsernameNotFoundException to be thrown in case the username is not found.

Setup a Resource Server separate from the Authorization Server

I’ve managed to setup a Resource Server separated from the Authorization server it’s very easy, just placing the annotation in the main class @EnableResourceServer and in application.properties specify the URI of the user information in the remote Authorization Server.

security.oauth2.resource.userInfoUri=http://localhost:9191/uaa/user

This /user address has to be setup in the Authorization Server of Long example like so:

And had to remove the constructor I had accepting the authenticationManager, and left it only to be inserted by Autowire.

Getting the Principal on the Resource Server…Using the Principal (Active User)to limit the data returned:

Using the Principal on the Resource Server , for this I had to extend the User Object to my own implementation, I didn’t want to touch to much on the Database side of Accounts so I created a new Object UserInfo

Has seen this above has a aditional field Id wich I use to relate the Account to the item being managed in the Resource Server (I’m also returning Roles in this (done by default)). To the Account Entity I added the following method and private class to manage the GrantedAuthority types.

This #security.principal is not in the main docs but I’ve been told in Twitter by JPA Lead Developer ( Oliver Gierke @olivergierke) that it can be a related bug solved in version 2.x of DATA JPA details in the stackoverflow link.

That’s it, if you do the Authentication to the authorization server and use the Bearer token to access the Resource Server you should have access to your Resource.

This example is about the access control and authentication on a modular web application, developed in Symfony2 using the EventDispatcher, the logic of implementation can be used in different projects, that don’t necessarily use these tools. The basis of this access control is the usage of a main event dispatcher and listener (EventDriven) to detect destination request address and intercept it before it reaches that destination (controller + method ).

I first became aware of the idea of using Events to control access, I believe it was by matthiasnoback on his blog a long time ago.

Anyway here I describe the usage of a Symfony2 custom EventListener to listen to a onKernelRequest

First I implemented the interface in the AccessControl Class no other code will interact with this that’s the beauty of using a event for access control, you can have the event manage the control access of all modules without having to interact directly with them. The code is commented for easier reading…

Here follows an example on access control without any dynamic database support

This is a basic decision path based on the destination route using the symfony name and the request from the client.

public function onKernelRequest($event)
{
if ($event->getRequestType() != HttpKernelInterface::MASTER_REQUEST) {
return null; // will only be handled if it’s from a external request else returns null
}

$user = $this->security->getToken()->getUser(); // get the current user information
$request = $event->getRequest(); // get the current request
$requested_uri = $request->getRequestUri(); // get the requested URI
$internal_route = $request->get(‘_route’); // this what is used to validate access

// $internal_route has the route name used by symfony witch I use to compare since it’s simpler

if ($internal_route == ‘fos_user_registration_register’) {
return true; // by default I allow the call to the registering of a new user
}

I did this app a time ago (~1 year) with Doctrine2+Symfony2 with simple Entities basically I was mimicking an excel sheet copying the values from the sheet to the database and setting all up for web usage.

The main Class was Item, this had Sub Entities Location, Protocol, State, etc…

These named here Location, Protocol, State had the same properties (fields), they also had to have a incrementable “Code” field witch, this was a basic copy paste to fill the tables and increment the number. Didn’t want to write the code to the different Entities so I used a Trait in a very lazy way I declared

So in a easy use TautoFill I got the data auto inserted and related to the main Item, without much work. Using a trait made the code more dynamic and easier to reimplement in the different situations without compromising hierarchy of the Entities.

Reading about scala I could only be curious about it, went to read details about the language and how it works. I get the idea that this is happening:

PHP is moving in the Java style direction… (Not trying to compare anything.)

Java is moving into a simpler coding Groovy, Scala ( in some cases harder) has Gosling him self professed. Both languages are being used in the financial markets( scala 1, scala 2, scala 3, Groovy ) for trading algorithms and social network Twitter , LinkedIn, it is said that Actors in Scala are a great way for Async communication Akka.Actors is said to be even better. Would like to have seen this two years ago, could have used this instead of Perl for a daemon I wrote. Both Scala and Groovy can use imported Java code.

Since I couldn’t get PHP 5.5 to work in Windows XP I chose to use Java (had something done in Python but the language syntax is more strange to me). The code is commented if anyone wants details about Thread + Tasks and UI.

I have been working with Java for android and a Web application purely for entertainment. For long I have seen PHP adopt more and more “ideas” from Java so to make it easy for someone that knows PHP to get into java and vice versa I’ll make some easy generic associations. This is from a HTTP point of view to simplify the relations.

Note: I have some basic background on Java and C# (Mono .NET), also I have an understanding of the design patterns that you will see applied in Java and in PHP frameworks and that helps understand the logic faster between the different languages.

In PHPControllers are Controllers, in Java they are mostly represented by a Servlet. It’s similar to Symfony 2 and Zend Framework adoption for handling requests. (Also in the Java Servlet can provide routing in the service method but not very used according to the reading I have been doing and the web.xml handles more of those requests).

In PHPModels are provided by Frameworks Zend Framework or Symfony also has them, in Java they are usually called Beans and they also take the role of “Services” witch is something that came up in Zend Framework 2 and Symfony 2 not knew but the concept in the framework has been more noticeable.

Template in PHP is done using some one of the following (known to have more) Smarty, Twig, normal PHP + HTML. In Java it is done via “tags” in Javaserver Pages (JSP) the approach of Javaserver Pages + Tags + Controller (Servlet) looked a lot like the Symfony 2 approach. (or vice versa)

HTTP ServerJetty (there is jetty for android) is a simple to use webserver built in java witch is simple to deploy and run you can print a hello world pretty fast with not much work with it. Apache/Nginx install + PHP + some DB still is faster to me since it actually has more documentation and isn’t so java centered.

Build and dependency management toolsMaven is a most simple way to manage and install dependency’s in Java just get some example pom.xml files to get your basics and understand the build process and it looks like composer (yes that thing that many criticize). Maven also can create standard working environments and run tests.

A ORM known in PHP is Doctrine a similar ORM in Java can be Hibernate. Hibernate also supports config by Annotations.

Configuration in PHP can be handled on whatever you want to use, in frameworks like Symfony 2 it’s known has app/config.ymlin Zend Framework 1 it’s application.iniin Zend Framework 2 it’s TODO something it’s more of a users choice. Symfony 2 also supports Annotations (via Doctrine Annotations) for route config et all, but in Java the Spring Framework his what I know to have those quirks but the Annotations are built in the language the main configuration for web development is usually a web.xml file in a WEB-INF directory.

Database connetionsPDO is for PHP what JDBC is for Java for database connection

PackagingWAR or JAR it’s Java package what was based for Phar files in PHP

Routing requests If you are looking in a more annotation style configuration for routing requests look at this text from wikipediaJAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services and Rewrite Engine

This is a somewhat generic way of comparing the two languages but what you can notice is that Java like PHP has some built around solutions built with the language but they are supplied by standard API has .jar files and like PHP it also has a very intense activity around and different solutions ( just to say maybe we shouldn’t criticize having a lot of frameworks as Matthew Weier O’Phinney says:

(this last quote was placed because of a lot of discussion I see in forums and mailing lists regarding standardization of the way the developer codes and the way the language is built. Nothing new was said but the discussion of the PHP group (fig) is “deja vu”.

Coding in Java…

Well it’s not that simple has in PHP… Small example you do a POST in PHP you could just $_POST[“FormDemo”][“id”] , $_POST[“FormDemo”][“name”] , in Java it follows the standards strictly and you can only handle key value pair posts. You can handle the PHP POST array format but that involves regular expressions for what I’ve seen not simple has in PHP.

In Java you get strings via HTTP and change it to the format you require, in PHP you get Strings or whatever and you rarely care and if you care much you can type cast the variable if it’s int, float or Array.

Integer.ParseInt(string) will be your friend for Integer values for the “what you may want”.

I started by using Eclipse + Eclipse Web development tools and jetty with basic code, then installed Maven and https://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/ plugin search for it in eclipse market I wasn’t thinking on hibernate but I wanted something more abstract to handle the database and I am using Doctrine in PHP so just searched for a ORM in Java and went with that one.

UPDATE:

PHP is simpler to use my issue with Java it’s not about the Type declaration I actually like that and sometimes wish that was better in PHP. I actually didn’t like the server setup requirements I started with jetty witch is very simple but the deployment using maven and all that… If I was coding pure PHP it would have been faster and simpler. Frameworks in Java allow you the basic to build “normal stuff” in a simpler way like “routes” et all. But in PHP you actually can get something like that in a more simpler way and faster by just coding. JavaEE at the just looks like over complicated for a simple web app solution.